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resembling the presidential election of 1980. who can forget incumbent democratic president, jimmy carter, republican challenger, ronald reagan. from the economy to volatile events in the middle east, how some analysts are now comparing these two races. james rosen is in washington with more on that. hi, james. >> reporter: gregg, good afternoon. a fault line of sorts has emerged in gop and conservative circles over how similar the 2012 cob test is to that -- contest is to that of 1980. 32 years ago republican ronald reagan survived a primary battle and went on to defeat the incumbent democratic president, jimmy carter, by more than nine percentage points n. final week of october, carter was enjoying a lead up from four points the week before. then as now the democratic incumbent painted his gop challenger as a heartless tool of the rich, someone who couldn't be trusted with the world's most difficult job. among those seeing striking similarities between 2012 and 1980 is r. emmetter the ril, the founder and editor of "the america
resembling the presidential election of 1980. who can forget incumbent democratic president, jimmy carter, republican challenger, ronald reagan. from the economy to volatile events in the middle east, how some analysts are now comparing these two races. james rosen is in washington with more on that. hi, james. >> reporter: gregg, good afternoon. a fault line of sorts has emerged in gop and conservative circles over how similar the 2012 cob test is to that -- contest is to that of 1980....
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that point, so that was a key election. let's take a look at the state of virginia. you can see 13 out of 207 electoral votes as we always mention, every vote counts. bob donnell was once thought of -- mcdom was once thought of as a candidate. the unemployment rate well below the national rate which we know today is 7.8%. a. -- at 5.9%. the president since april has been there ten times, romney nine, but be you take a look at the total visits by the president since he was elected president, he's been to the seat of virginia 44 times. he's close, right? so probably easier to get to virginia than some of these other swing states. when we look at the polls, you can see how close. they are virtually tied in virginia, and that's why we wanted to talk to julian walker, a writer for the virginian pilot. he joining us from the state capital of richmond. julian, do you think anything that happened in this debate changed the poll in any way if because the numbers we just showed were taken before the debate, and we have some real numb
that point, so that was a key election. let's take a look at the state of virginia. you can see 13 out of 207 electoral votes as we always mention, every vote counts. bob donnell was once thought of -- mcdom was once thought of as a candidate. the unemployment rate well below the national rate which we know today is 7.8%. a. -- at 5.9%. the president since april has been there ten times, romney nine, but be you take a look at the total visits by the president since he was elected president,...
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jon: fox news alert on the number one issue to americans this election season. we are talking about the jobs. the unemployment rate for september. 7.8% is the number. that number below eight percent for the first time in almost four years. 114,000 jobs created last month but not nearly enough to keep pace with population growth. as 23 million americans remain unemployed or under employed. coming up we'll go behind the numbers to see what they really tell us about the overall health of our economy. governor romney quickly issuing a statement saying, this is not what a real recovery looks like. meanwhile, we are awaiting, we're awaiting remarks from president obama. both presidential nominees are campaigning in the battleground state of virginia today. we are closely monitoring these events. we'll bring you the very latest developments. back to all of that in just a moment. but first, brand new stories and breaking news. jenna: new developments on a deadly meningitis outbreak putting nearly half of all states on alert with fresh concerns that more people may be at
jon: fox news alert on the number one issue to americans this election season. we are talking about the jobs. the unemployment rate for september. 7.8% is the number. that number below eight percent for the first time in almost four years. 114,000 jobs created last month but not nearly enough to keep pace with population growth. as 23 million americans remain unemployed or under employed. coming up we'll go behind the numbers to see what they really tell us about the overall health of our...
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we are your election headquarters. with just more than a month until the big day we are taking a closer look at some of the key battleground states that could decide the race for the white house. today we want to take a look at the state of new hampshire, the yellow states, all 12 of them, those are battleground states. let's examine new hampshire now. the economy is 5.7 unemployment rate, well below the 8.1 national average. look at a gallon of gas, double what it was when the president took office. the 15th highest foreclosure rate in the nation, one in 894. and mitt romney has visited three times as many as the president. the population fairly small state 1.3 million. electoral votes 4 out of 270 may not seem like a lot, but in 2000 if al gore had won new hampshire there would have been no hanging chad. the democratic governor and major tourism and agriculturement here is the latest real clear politics average of polls. there is a 3-point difference between the president and mitt romney with president obama on top.
we are your election headquarters. with just more than a month until the big day we are taking a closer look at some of the key battleground states that could decide the race for the white house. today we want to take a look at the state of new hampshire, the yellow states, all 12 of them, those are battleground states. let's examine new hampshire now. the economy is 5.7 unemployment rate, well below the 8.1 national average. look at a gallon of gas, double what it was when the president took...